Metallic artefact reduction with monoenergetic dual-energy CT: Systematic ex vivo evaluation of posterior spinal fusion implants from various vendors and different spine levels

European Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2357-2364

  Guggenberger, R ^a   Winklhofer, S ^a   Osterhoff, G ^a   Wanner, G A ^a   Fortunati, M ^b   Andreisek, G ^a   Alkadhi, H ^a   Stolzmann, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Spine Center   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dual energy computed tomography; Metallic artefact reduction; Monoenergetic; Posterior spinal fusion implants; Postprocessing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BONE IMPLANT; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EX VIVO STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LUMBAR SPINE; MONOENERGETIC DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR SPINE FUSION IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORACIC SPINE;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; METALS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870324309     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-012-2501-7     Document Type: Article

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